ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,763, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to IBIDEN Co. Ltd. (Ogaki, Japan).
"Method of producing inorganic fiber mat and inorganic fiber mat" was invented by Tomohisa Yamazaki (Takahama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method of producing an inorganic fiber mat, the method including: a preparing step of preparing a first inorganic fiber molding including an organic binder attached thereto and derived from a needle-punched mat; a defibrating step of defibrating the first inorganic fiber molding to obtain defibrated inorganic fibers; and a papermaking step of forming the inorganic fiber mat by papermaking using a slurr...